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- jwk4heels, on 10/31/2009, -0/+56Is it just me, or did the author go a little crazy with the bold, italic, underline, and quotation marks?
- jmritchie, on 11/10/2009, -4/+48I have three laptops on my desk and two smart phones, and I'm sick and tired of this tech/comm overload. Unplugging everything, growing a beard (and crops) and marrying a virgin sound pretty good right now.
- BeardEnvy, on 10/31/2009, -1/+42They don't even know how much Nickelback sucks.
- Sexercise, on 10/31/2009, -2/+43I liked how they RANDOMLY BOLDED AND ITALICIZED things all over in RANDOM places.
It helped convey THE story, and more importantly, allowed me to BETTER READ THE WORDS. - zephc, on 10/31/2009, -1/+37Obligatory Weird Al: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrowbOGZJwg
(Bitches don't know bout my barn raisin') - jesburger, on 10/31/2009, -2/+31they also have beards
- inactive, on 10/30/2009, -1/+23I bet they can't Twitter this.
- jgrandi, on 10/30/2009, -4/+26I know that I wouldn't last one day of being Amish!
- pwarnock, on 10/30/2009, -0/+21I think they have it both easier and harder. I think we can benefit from a hybrid approach.
- numberneal, on 10/30/2009, -1/+18wow i didn't know they spoke another language
- jdyme1, on 10/30/2009, -1/+16I kind of suspected it was like that, but to actually read it is interesting. Much respect for them, I could never do that.
- Chordonblue, on 10/31/2009, -1/+16You'd be surprised how many Amish (especially the younger members) have things like computers, cell phones, and solar panels to charge that stuff.
Chances are, if you roll by an Amish farm in Lancaster Co, you'll see a girl sitting on her porch with her hand covering a cell phone and couple of nice sized solar panels on the side of the barn.
Often times, technological advances happen at such a rapid rate that the bishops have no specific rules - and it's all about the rules, not so much the spirit in which they are made.
I have a ton of stories related to being a tech guy in Amishland, but here's one of the best ones... Years ago I worked in a Commodore dealership in Lancaster County. Commodore ran a silly promotion (at least I thought it was silly), where if you bought an Amiga 500 and a monitor you'd get a free VCR.
What sucked about that deal was that you'd also have to buy this long-ass adaptor to get COLOR output to the VCR - but that's another story and Commodore's inept marketing is legendary. Anyway, it became a HUGE hit with the Amish and old order Mennonite community. One couple came in - didn't seem too interested in the computer so much as the VCR, but bought the package. A few days later, the floodgates opened and we sold a ton of these deals.
We couldn't figure it out. What was the big deal? I found out a few days into this when I suggested to a couple that if you stuck some rabbit ears on the VCR, you'd have a pretty good TV. The couple were visibly SHOCKED that I made the suggestion and they left in a hurry. Then we understood what was going on: The Amish and old order Mennnonites cannot have TV's, however they CAN have computers to do their business on. The bishops had not gotten around to recognizing VCR technology, and so when these (mostly young) Amish people were getting their computers, they were also getting some extra entertainment as well.
To sum up:
- TV's=Forbidden!
- Monitors, computers, and VCRs (whatever the hell those are)=Allowed.
This is the thing I've come to understand about the Amish - they make these rules and then they spend the rest of their lives trying to get around them. Amazing. - cheapo17, on 10/30/2009, -3/+15eye opening article
- DurtyJ, on 10/31/2009, -0/+12Don't know about anything else, but that virgin deal must sound pretty tempting for digg users.
- iwashere2, on 10/31/2009, -1/+13
Good for them. Who am I (we) to judge? - sonofabe, on 10/31/2009, -2/+14Have you seen their virgins??
- Kalior, on 10/31/2009, -3/+14There is a large amish community where I grew up, they run a restaurant and the entire menu is home-grown and cooked over wood fires. Best brunch you'll ever have. period. (seriously, people would drive up 3-4 hours from Chicago to go there)
- inkswamp, on 10/31/2009, -0/+11FTA: "The Amish do not have health insurance. Instead each family pays money into the church very similar to tithing. A portion of this money is set aside for what they refer to as 'Amish Aid'. A fund that is dedicated to health care costs incurred due to an illness of a member of the church."
Well, then yes, they *do* have health insurance even if they don't call it that. The advantage of their system is that it focuses on its primary goal of managing health care costs for its community as opposed to making corporate execs and shareholders wealthy. - Expl0siv0, on 10/31/2009, -1/+12Alright bramcantwatch you go ahead and give up the devices you're "sick" of and come back to us in a day and let us know how that goes.
- Chordonblue, on 10/31/2009, -2/+12Do not dismiss young Amish women as being hags. They may become that way over time due to the hard work in the sun, but you may believe that when they are young they are as beautiful as any other girls.
/Yes, I have experience with this.
//No, I don't have pics. :) - rwbrinso, on 10/30/2009, -3/+12It means a lifetime of Randy Quaid jokes, that's what it means.
- kylescousin, on 10/30/2009, -3/+12No interwebs? Trying.. to .. grasp.... amish lifestyle. Brain hurts.
- Schwab, on 10/31/2009, -0/+9RUMSPRINGA!
- tek69, on 10/31/2009, -0/+8Dood, even the amish know nickleback sucks.
- rpapi100, on 10/31/2009, -0/+7Thank you kind sir, I came to this thread for the sole purpose of watching this video.
- Philbert, on 10/31/2009, -1/+8When I was a kid and teen we did a lot of camping in Lancaster, PA, every other weekend sometimes, so I saw the Amish around there a lot. They keep to themselves but when you do talk to them they're very nice people.
- Koushiro, on 10/31/2009, -1/+8Jeez, they're not forced to live like that, they choose to live like that.
- MonoDede, on 10/31/2009, -0/+7What the fuuuuuuuuuuuck?!
- tek69, on 10/31/2009, -0/+6blah blah blah for the minors. You do realise they think we're just as destructive to our minors right?
- silverchrysalis, on 10/31/2009, -0/+6leash?
- 1onslow, on 10/31/2009, -2/+7I have been around Amish a great deal. They are truly amazing people. Many years ago I was driving through Apple Creek Ohio and passed several Amish youth walking to church in the early morning darkness. It was winter and cold and amazing. They are a wonderful, hard working people and not all of them live agrarian lives. I often met with an Amish businessman in PA and he had a cell phone clipped to his belt. In his heart he was still Amish.
- MPKFA, on 10/31/2009, -0/+5Who told Micheal Scott about Digg?
- Rev0lver, on 10/31/2009, -0/+5"Harvesting crops, AGAIN lolz."
- MScrip, on 10/31/2009, -0/+4Dugg for Carol Brady...
- kspanks04, on 10/31/2009, -0/+4Yeah- research Tyson farmers. Watch Food, Inc. Quit living in ignorance.
- magamiako, on 10/31/2009, -1/+5OMG IT'S SOCIALISM! THEY ALL POOL THEIR MONEY TOGETHER AND HELP EACH OTHER OUT! RUN FOR THE HILLS! GET OUT THE NUKES! COMMIIIIIEEEEEESSS!
- kspanks04, on 10/31/2009, -1/+5I wonder if technology will help your ignorance.
- momcatjo, on 10/31/2009, -1/+5Think about it... these are the kinds of people who will easily survive the collapse of the American Empire. They are already adapted to a life without big pharma, big agra, massive consumerism and massive technology overload.
Most of the rest of us nowadays don't have a clue. - daub815, on 10/31/2009, -0/+4Are you sure all of the ones you saw were Amish? They could have been Mennonite.
- anixmander, on 10/31/2009, -0/+4"I often met with an Amish businessman in PA and he had a cell phone clipped to his belt. In his heart he was still Amish. '
You sure he wasn't a Mennonite? - DigitalisAkujin, on 10/31/2009, -4/+8Diff is the amish don't go blowing themselves up
- tek69, on 10/31/2009, -0/+4Was your dog old yeller? I loved that movie but I don't think an amish guy shot the dog at the end.
- AnalogAssassin, on 10/31/2009, -0/+3And for that, they're truly blessed.
- Chordonblue, on 10/31/2009, -2/+5You'd have no choice, or at least not much of one if you grew up Amish. I mean, look at it this way. As an Amish child you only have an 8th grade education. Most of your friends and relatives are Amish. If you decide to leave the community you leave with NOTHING - not even communication with your family back home. You are orphaned, shunned and alone.
It is a difficult thing to decide to join the community as a young person. They aren't stupid - the kids damn well know about technology they are just forbidden to actually own it. But they'll ride in 'English' cars. They'll play 'English' videogames. They'll use 'English' computers at their 'English' friend's houses.
The kids are all too aware of what they are giving up to stay with the community. The advantages of staying? You will likely have a mate. You will likely have your own place sooner than most of us ever did. You will be part of a community that works together and shares the burden. Sure, they suffer more without the tech, but then again, they are ALL suffering together, and for some reason that makes it not seem so bad. - TAGline, on 10/31/2009, -0/+3Really? Throwing out farming advancements and cooking with a wood stoves? Amish culture could not support anywhere close to the "normal" population density of today's world, much less anything close to the standard of living in the country within which they reside. Regressing back that point means the slaughter of billions through starvation. Billions, with a B. Can you comprehend a number that large? People are locked away for 80+ years for killing a single person, can you fully appreciate what the green revolution has allowed? That's 12,500,000 years, about twice as long as humanity as a real "culture" has existed, minimum.
Even if you are religious, what would be the greatest gift your god imparted us with? Knowledge. The ability to learn and pass on that learning. Chemically, primates are something like 95-99%+ identical to us in terms of genetic material; the only thing that sets us apart from the "animal kingdom" is our brains. Not using them seems to me to be as much as an offense to any god as forfeiting life itself. Freezing time at some arbitrary point is blasphemy against both common sense and gods. - iwashere2, on 10/31/2009, -3/+6No it's not just you.
- tek69, on 10/31/2009, -0/+3Well yeah, thats because it's inhumane and unethical to wear real amish. Besides the fake stuff looks just as good.
- seltaeb4, on 10/31/2009, -0/+3It's Amish single-payer.
- cfuse, on 10/31/2009, -0/+3The less real content you have the more borders and glitter you need. I hated those bitches at school who'd put a triple border on a page of crap and get an A+ for it.
- Portezbie, on 10/31/2009, -2/+5Amish abuse of animals is actually well documented. Many of the dogs and cats you see in pet stores come from amish "puppy mills", where animals are horribly abused. As above mentioned, the Amish see animals as nothing more than property. Me and my girlfriend have a rescue dog that probably came from an Amish puppy mill, and it has been a ton of work getting her to not be afraid and sad all the time.
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